poverty does disfigure morality!

It can only be termed outrageous that a third grade tabloid of Britain publishes a fabricated story about Oscar kid Rubina Ali being put on sale by her parents and the world start looking at them with wide eyes and say ‘how can someone do that to his/her own kid?’ hah…First of all this tabloid ‘news of the world’ is a gossip tabloid. Mainly people read it to peep into the spicy side of celebrities…just for the sake of some entertainment. Nobody takes it so seriously as Indian news channels have. Secondly, if you watch that video which is supposedly shot during the sting operation of tabloid’s reporter, it hardly says anything. It is impossible to find out from video they have put out that whether they are doing a film deal or trying to sell their own kid. Tabloid will never be able to prove their side of story if someone files a case against them. But they know that no one will. Poor of India are harmless and can be made fun of…

And even if this story is true, doesn’t it look ugly? Rich of the world trying to make fun of poor…making them laughing stock and then finally casting surprise. No one likes the idea of a father selling off his daughter but it was nevertheless a cheap, vulgar, contemptible stunt by the tabloid to entrap Qureshi.

A privileged reporter from a wealthy country flies into a Mumbai slum to trick or persuade an impoverished and illiterate man to trade in his daughter for a better life for her and his whole family. It is the abyss between the two that is troubling. If the paper had picked on someone who could defend himself, the sting operation would have been less repugnant.

When the News of World exposes the moral frailties of celebrities or powerful personalities in the West, no unpleasant taste lingers in the mouth. These are people who can look after themselves.
But for a foreigner who has probably never experienced the inconvenience of a 30-minute power cut in his whole life and pass moral judgement on an impoverished, vulnerable, slum-dweller is sickening.

Obviously, it never occurred to him that poverty can disfigure morality. When all you have known is squalor, hunger, no running water, no shred of comfort at home after a day’s work, panic at the thought of your children falling ill and not having enough money for medicines, and feeling degraded to the core by living conditions that would be deemed unfit for animals in the West, it can affect your moral sensibility. This is not to say that the poor are less moral than the rich. But verily it is generally easier for the rich to enjoy a higher level of moral hygiene than the poor.
Moral ground does shake when one has to choose among four of his kids that whom to send school and whom to send out to earn money. When one has to choose between getting medicine for his ill mother or sick child then morality does shake. Who are we to condemn them as morally reprehensible?

smart indian voters!

A million dollar question – whom does Indian voters vote? The conclusion I have come across is very simple and straight forward. Indian voters vote to the candidate who works for them. Days are gone when parties used to win elections by playing cast and money politics. Indian voters have become smart now. They do accept the money offered to them. But when it comes to pressing the button they never ditch their conscious. They do not care much about candidate’s criminal record or cast as much they care how many times he visited his constituency after getting elected. And what are the work he did in his tenure of five years. Thinking about right wing or left or secular comes much later. Definitely there are exceptions where still voters get lured by cast politics but in majority of places ‘development’ is the one word which matters now.

Let me give you an example of my constituency. Yashwant Sinha (Former finance minister) is a BJP candidate from here. He had been winning quite comfortably from his seats regularly. But suddenly in 2004 he lost and that also to a piggy candidate Bhuwaneshwar Mehta. He had started taking his win for granted. Voters took the revenge and result was shocking. In assembly election also Manoj Yadav of congress has been winning from my area consecutively for last three elections. He has got a tainted past. But still he wins only because he works for his voters. He is always available and try to solve anything and everything for them. Take another example – the politics of Jharkhand. In the first assembly election of Jharkhand people voted BJP into the power. Babulal Marandi became chief minister and he started doing lots of developmental works. Other heavy weights of Jharkhand BJP suddenly started getting scared by his growing persona. They axed him out of party. In the name of Adiwasi base most incapable and corrupt Arjun Munda was made chief minister. Next general election BJP could not win even a single seat in Jharkhand and in assembly election they were voted out of power. Hope BJP learns from it and correct its mistake as soon as possible. Otherwise I do not see quite different result this election as well.

Recently voted Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhatishgadh are another example of how people voted for good governance and rejected the lazy bumps.

Therefore political parties listen carefully. Drop this hate campaign against each other and focus on how good candidate you are fielding. I understand that for most its already too late to implement this gurumantra coming from me. But may be you can use it next election and see the difference in result. Salute to you smart voters of my land. Keep up the good work. Good luck for the first phase tomorrow.

press the right button...please!

Mulayam Singh Yadav is a most disgraced person now a days. He is annoyed because no one care a damn about him. Amar Singh steals all the limelight by pulling bollywood with him. Someone told Mulayam that it’s all because of language. Amar Singh can somehow manage to speak in English and you can not even read your name written in this language. Stars consider English speaking netas up market. Poor Mulayam…none of the stars call him ‘bade bhaiya’ as they do to Amar Singh. So finally after getting humiliated several times (for the lack of his up market attitude) Mulayam decided to chop the root. He plans to ban English. He plans to ban computer as well. What a grand idea it is to smash the difference between down and up market…he must have thought smiling at his buffalo (Piculiar samajwadi way of thinking...hah)!!!!! Bechara Amar Singh had to justify netaji for next four days in media speaking in English while juggling on his iphone. It seems Mulayam will have to ban Amar and his own son Akhilesh first to even dream about this buffalo thought!!!!!!

Pathetic…that’s the only word I can use for these jokers. I always consider these Amar-Mulayam twin as jokers. But do not forget that joker some time becomes most important card in the game as they became at the time of nuclear deal issue. Corporate and bollywood keep clinging to them because they know that these jokers do manage to come in power once in a while and that time all the debts get paid with interest. Everyone knows this. But still every election they do manage to bag some handful of votes. How it happens is the most surprising puzzle for me? Are we even more shameless than these jokers that even for paltry money we let our power to cast vote for right candidate go wasted? Worse…if it is so. I do not expect us to act as Raja Harischandra. Take money if they are offering (That’s anyway is not their earning...its ous in fact). But never press the wrong button. Our right conscious can change the destiny of next gen. Although all of them look same, but still go for the best among worse. Lets do this favor to our country coming election.

And never forget that we are voting in national election. And my suggestion is that we should only vote to national parties. We need to stay away from regional parties when it comes to choosing a government for the nation. Regional and small parties always talk and act for their target voters. Their structure does not allow them to consider Bihar and Tamil Nadu same. So please vote for national parties. India does have lots of potential. We are considered best in the world as far as potential is concerned. What we desperately need now is one-party government in centre…who does not have to depend on crutches of coalition to walk…but who can run free and fast like 21st century itself…press the right button please.

Lets Wake up Sleeping giants this election...

Suddenly we have got a new weapon to register our protest thanks to Iraqi journalist who invented it by throwing at Bush and then clue taken from there by another journalist an Indian (who happened to be Sardar as well and they say around 12 o’clock noon he threw his shoes at home minister. What can you say…Karan Johar has warned several times to stay away from Sardars at 12 o’clock.). Jarnail Singh, whom hardly anyone knew in his own mohallah suddenly became Bhagat Singh of all the Sardars around the world. Akalis announced even cash prize for him. Perhaps for the same sort of result a retired school teacher throws his shoe at Navin Jindal. Navin ducks it…and the old man gets even no cash prize…how bad!!!

However, this latest weapon seems to be working fine. Tytler and Sajjan Kumar lost their congress ticket immediately. And I am told that Navin Jindal is advised to choose someone else’s constituency for election rallies. The best thing about this mode of expression is that it hardly takes any time and rarely invites any punishment…specially in election time. Politicians are ready to take anything for votes at these time. And Shoe is something they know that they deserve the most…so never very insulting its considered in their biradari.

But this whole drama of shoe and after makes a common man like me think. Is it the right way of expression in democracy? Today it was done by a journalist and teacher, who guarantees that tomorrow hooligans won’t use it for their political purposes? And in stead of condemning it in one voice, almost all the parties including congress go on to reward it. Tytler and Sajjan Kumar loses their tickets the very next day only. Now congress is saying that they are sensitive to the emotions of Sikh. Why does it take a shoe at face to make political parties sensitive to issues? Why were Jagdish and Sajjan given tickets at first place? And why nobody had raised this issue when Tytler was given clean chit by CBI first time at the time of NDA? Why does it take 25 years to declare someone guilty or clean? Isn’t it ridiculous when prime minister of country does not know about something so big which also effects his party primarily till it becomes public and specially when the investigating agency suppose to be acting under him? Isn’t it the insult of court that someone gets punished at the whim of mob? And if decision of someone’s guiltiness has to be taken by mob then why waste time and wealth of court? How different we remain from Taliban after this? I can only say SHAME…shame on you coward politicians…shame.

Secondly, what makes people to forget all their ethical and professional responsibility? Why someone has to throw a shoe to be listened? Why is our judiciary always sleeping? Why can not we have speedy delivery of judgments? Why can not we make judiciary also answerable to public? Today, almost all our major problems right from naxalism, curruption to terrorism start with the ineffectiveness of judiciary. Why none of the political party is talking about improving our judicial system? Why have we almost stopped to construct new courts? And when was the last time we recruited new judges?

In fact, Judiciary should be the main agenda this election. But quite surprisingly none of the parties have even mentioned it in their manifesto. Unless we take our courts to villages and mohallas, we can never dream of peaceful and prosperous India. Politicians want to keep the judiciary acting defunct for their personal benefits. Most of them have some cases running against them. The day judiciary start pacing up, 90% of politicians will find themselves behind the bar. Therefore, They will try to keep it as useless as possible. But we, the common people suffer…and we, the common people need to raise voice for our own benefit…to strengthen our democracy and society…and put an end to delayed justice…after all justice delayed is justice denied.